Martha Argerich and Friends Live from the Lugano Festival 2016

Featuring

Martha Argerich
Renaud Capuçon
Alexander Alexandrovich Vedernikov
Sergei Babayan
Sergio Tiempo
Karin Lechner

Diego Fasolis
Alice Rossi
Laura Antonaz
Elisabeth Gillming
Marta Fumagalli
Martin Steffan
Gerhard Nennemann
Matteo Bellotto
David Guerrier
Nicholas Angelich
Elena Schwarz
Bruno Grossi
Maurizio Simeoli
Marco Schiavon
Federico Cicoria
Corrado Giuffredi
Paolo Beltramini
Stefano Franceschini
Alberto Biano
Stefano Semprini
Ivano Buat
Floriano Rosini
Ricardo Serrano
Vittorio Ferrari
Tedi Papavrami
Stephen Kovacevich
Giorgia Tomassi
Marcelo Nisinman
Anton Martynov
Eduardo Hubert
Enrico Fagone
Jorge Bosso
Lyda Chen
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera
Maurice Ravel
Ferruccio Busoni
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Manuel de Falla
Ludwig van Beethoven
Johannes Brahms
Alban Berg
Johann Sebastian Bach
Claude Debussy

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Instruments

Marcelo Nisinman is a virtuoso player of the bandoneón, an Argentinian concertina that became a distinctive voice in traditional tango bands from the 1910s onwards.

Performer Biography

Martha Argerich, the Argentinian pianist and artistic director of the Lugano Festival, is famously averse to performing alone onstage and has shunned the recording studio for many years.

Historical Context

Brahms's Horn Trio, composed in 1865, has a melancholy tone that may be linked to the recent death of his mother, Christiane.

Composition History

Beethoven's Choral Fantasy was composed as a grand finale for his famous 1808 Akademie concert, which also included the premieres of his Fifth and Sixth Symphonies and Fourth Piano Concerto.

Compositional Technique

Alban Berg's Kammerkonzert for piano, violin, and 13 wind instruments is structurally based on the 'musical notes' derived from the names of Arnold Schoenberg (Berg's teacher), Anton Webern (his co-pupil), and Alban Berg himself.

Cultural Impact

Pierre Boulez considered Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, inspired by a symbolist poem by Stéphane Mallarmé, to be the wellspring of modern music.